They reminisce a while, talk of Santiago's plans for going out the next day, and then go to Santiago's shack. Santiago at first tells him to go play baseball but eventually relents. Manolin asks if he can get sardines for Santiago tomorrow. The fishermen who were successful this day have taken their marlin to the fish house or their sharks to the shark factory. Some of the other fishermen make fun of Santiago others look at him and are sad, speaking politely about the current and the depths at which they had fished and what they had seen at sea. On their way home, Manolin buys Santiago a beer at the Terrace. Along the way, Manolin tries to cheer Santiago by reminding him of the time, when they were fishing together, that the old man went 87 days without a fish and then they caught big fish for three weeks. This evening, as every evening, Manolin meets the old man to help carry the coiled line, gaff, harpoon, and sail back to his shack. After 40 days without a catch, Manolin's father has insisted that Manolin, the young man Santiago taught to fish from the age of five, fish in another boat. For 84 days, the old fisherman Santiago has caught nothing, returning empty-handed in his skiff to the small Cuban fishing village where he lives.
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